By Kevin Liptak, Suzanne Malveaux and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The White House and Capitol Hill are considering a phone app connected to the National Instant Criminal Background Checks (NICS) as one of the options in...

By Caroline Kelly, CNN Former Attorney General Eric Holder predicted President Donald Trump may be prosecuted after his presidency if he doesn't first face impeachment proceedings while in office -- but warned of the...

By Rene Marsh, CNN Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is planning a trip to California next week as the Trump administration tries to come up with solutions to the state's homelessness problem, a source...

By Sarah Westwood, Evan Perez and Ryan Browne, CNN President Donald Trump in a statement on Saturday said late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's son Hamza bin Laden had been "killed in a United States counterterrorism...

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden committed to publicly releasing his medical records before the Iowa caucuses after questions of whether the 76-year-old former vice president is fit...

By Caroline Kelly, CNN All three Republican primary challengers lambasted state GOP leaders -- and President Donald Trump -- for opting to cancel their 2020 presidential primary elections in a show of support for the...

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas has made his position on assault weapons crystal clear. "Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47," O'Rourke said during Thursday's...

By Jeremy Herb, CNN After a 2018 Republican wipeout in Orange County, San Juan Capistrano Mayor Brian Maryott is betting that his record as "a quiet leader" can help turn the GOP's congressional fortunes around in...

By Gregory Krieg and MJ Lee, CNN Elizabeth Warren is the presidential candidate with a plan for just about everything -- but there's one significant exception when it comes to an issue that is top of mind for so many...

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN The latest Democratic debate threw up a rich haul of clashes, incidents, slow burning controversies and policy collisions that will help define the 2020 race in the weeks to come.

By Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent A hand-drawn swastika was found on the third floor of a Department of Homeland Security building on Friday in Washington, a government official told CNN.

By James Griffiths, CNN Panicked shoppers thronged supermarket aisles, grabbing bags of salt by the armful. They queued six deep outside wholesalers. Most went home with only one or two bags; the lucky ones managed to snag...

By Kylie Atwood, CNN The parents of Otto Warmbier, Fred and Cindy Warmbier, will have dinner at the White House on Saturday night with President Donald Trump and Richard Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany, according to...

By Lauren Fox and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke's full-throated call for a mandatory government buyback of assault-style weapons has frustrated some lawmakers on Capitol Hill who are trying to...

By Nikki Carvajal and Matthew Hoye, CNN President Donald Trump seemed to strike a different tone on vaping in a tweet Friday evening after announcing earlier in the week an effort to ban almost all flavored vaping products.

By David Shortell, CNN The Justice Department said Friday that a request to a federal court from House Democrats seeking access to secret grand jury material underlying special counsel Robert Mueller's report should be...

By Kylie Atwood Even though President Donald Trump says Iran wants to meet, there is little to suggest that there is behind the scenes movement toward any meeting between Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani coming...

By Eric Bradner and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Former Vice President Joe Biden said Friday he'd had a "good night" in the third Democratic presidential debate -- and that he is getting more comfortable in the party's 2020...

By Jeremy Herb, CNN The Justice Department and FBI are reviewing a draft of the long-awaited report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court applications regarding the Trump campaign, the department's inspector...

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business The emails all start the same way: "The United States 18th Space Control Squadron has identified a close approach between" your satellite and another. The messages also note the projected...

By Sam Fossum, CNN The US Department of Agriculture will resume data collection for its annual Honey Bee Colonies report on October 1 -- the start of a new fiscal year -- after suspending the survey earlier this summer...

By Daniel Dale President Donald Trump made a three-tweet argument Friday morning about why he should not be impeached, touting what he said were his accomplishments. Over the course of 139 words, he made six false claims...

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Nothing is spooking investors on this particular Friday the 13th. The Dow climbed to its eighth day of gains in a row on the news that China will exempt US soybeans and pork from its next...

Donna Borak, CNN President Donald Trump is reviving last year's promise to slash taxes for America's middle class as he seeks to bolster his reelection bid against Democratic pledges to help people suffering under...

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Twitter has removed a Texas state lawmaker's post that was seen as a threat to presidential candidate Beto Rourke for his comments about his plan for a mandatory...

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business A federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit filed against Fox News by the parents of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer whose unsolved murder became the basis for...

By Zachary Cohen and Kevin Collier, CNN The US Treasury Department has further sanctioned North Korea for its long-established efforts to hack financial institutions around the world, saying the money is used to help fund...

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large While 10 Democrats spent two-plus hours Thursday night making the case for why they are uniquely suited to beating Donald Trump in 2020, the President traveled to Baltimore...

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Less than an hour after the Supreme Court allowed a government rule to go into effect nationwide that will dramatically cut back on the ability of Central Americans to apply...

By Maegan Vazquez and Nikki Carvajal, CNN President Donald Trump on Thursday evening claimed that energy efficient light bulbs make him look orange, one in a series of bizarre claims about green energy and climate...

By David Shortell, CNN The attorney for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe asked federal prosecutors late Thursday if a grand jury in Washington, DC, had declined to bring charges against their client following a...

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday criticized a television ad from a new Republican-aligned political action committee that calls her "ignorant" and sets fire to her picture.